All of the node.js kids get really defensive when you point this out; as if async was supposed to be heinously ugly despite the fact that the entire raison d'et

All of the node.js kids get really defensive when you point this out; as if async was supposed to be heinously ugly despite the fact that the entire raison d'etre of node.js is to be async. Programming advances so slowly because all of the training required to become familiar with it eventually becomes a blind spot.